You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No.

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

Don't cling to things because everything is impermanent.

We don’t have to tell secrets. We don’t have to talk at all. We could just, you know, kiss . . . and stuff.

Time heals all wounds. Unless they're infected. Like gangrene. That shit'll kill you.

You can’t love anything properly from a distance.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

I can love the whole world except my neighbor.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.